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Police seeking information related to Park Forest church vandalism
Police continue to investigate an incident of vandalism last week at Park Forest Baptist Church. No new information was available Monday morning from Patton Township police.
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CRIME
Police: Argument between Rockview inmates leads to ink-pen stabbing
State police at Rockview say an argument Sunday between two inmates at the State Correctional Institution at Rockview led to one of the men stabbing the other with an ink pen.
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NEWS
Storify | Tornado kills at least 91 in Oklahoma
Recovery operations continue Tuesday morning after a tornado, reported to be a mile wide, touched down in Moore, leveling Plaza Towers Elementary School and killing 20 children inside. The death toll is expected to rise. President Obama has declared a disaster and FEMA is providing support.
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NEWS
Attorneys for NCAA, Corbett debate merits of governor’s lawsuit over Penn State sanctions
Fans pinning their hopes on the governor’s lawsuit to reverse the crippling sanctions against the Penn State football team will learn soon whether it survived a motion to dismiss from the NCAA.
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NEWS
Man taken into custody after 2-hour standoff in Pleasant Gap
A man was taken into police custody Monday after barricading himself in his family’s South Main Street home for about two hours, prompting a large-scale police response and the lockdown of a nearby elementary school.
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STATE
SUV crashes when dog gets stuck in steering wheel
Police in central Pennsylvania say a woman lost control of her sport-utility vehicle, drove along a sidewalk and crashed after her small dog got tangled up in the steering wheel.
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STATE
2 Pa. teens charged after trying to re-enter prom
Police say two suburban Philadelphia teenagers were arrested following an altercation after one of them tried to re-enter their high school prom.
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STATE
Melvin's attorney's file notice of Superior appeal
Attorneys for former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin have filed notice that they intend to appeal her campaign corruption conviction and sentence to state Superior Court.
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STATE
Pa. duo charged with supplying heroin in overdose
A southwestern Pennsylvania duo has been jailed on charges they sold the heroin that led to the overdose death of a 55-year-old man.
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CRIME
Pa. woman charged with texting before fatal crash
A western Pennsylvania woman has been charged with text-messaging while driving in connection with a crash earlier this month that killed a former volunteer fire chief.
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STATE
Pa. man charged with 4th DUI hits police cruiser
Police say a western Pennsylvania man charged with his fourth drunken driving offense was fleeing police when he smashed into a police cruiser belong to a township where another officer was killed in a similar crash earlier this month.




